As was the tradition of Hokoritai tribe, two boys, around the time of their prepubesence were to be sent outside of the safety of the clan once every year. The tradition was set long ago as a means of using the young chosen who were trained as skilled warriors to find new areas for the clan to grow in size. For 300 years, this tribe was able to expand without much risk. The young scouters would often return home after 1 to 2 days with information on habitable areas, but if they were unable to find potential abodes or had to face an enemy beast that was too daunting; they were instructed to return home immediately and the tribe would wait another year before attempting again. 

Whenever the tribe set to relocate, the adult men who were trained in various styles of combat as well as the arts, were able to defend the tribe from great danger, however, the greatest threats would often claim lives. Regardless of the threats, the tribe did well for itself. The new areas that the tribe relocated to would bless them with lush vegetation and fertile soil which made crop growing easy. The beasts that lived here were smart and managed to stay away from most traps that the tribe would set, so theirs was mostly a vegetarian tribe. Even so, the tribe increased in size and prospered for generations.

On the beginning of the 325th year, the tribe found it's resources severely lacking. After 24 years of stagnant growth, the natural sources of food that their enviorment provided began to decay and refused to thrive. During these years the children that were sent out to find new areas would never return. Several families within the tribe were heartbroken and they decided to elect men to find new lands instead. The adult men, who were even proficently skilled with the strength and power to defeat great beasts shared the same fate of the children.

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Wives and daugthers were then encouraged to join the efforts -- to begin to learn combats and the arts -- an opinion which only half of the tribe shared. The other half which valued their traditon was opposed. Vehemently opposed.

When little girls began to show up missing, mass hysteria broke out through the clan. Men and women who lost their children sought to persecute anyone that they previously had enmity with. Assumptions were made and fingers were pointed. Those who were suspected, even those who hadn't broken any rules and pleaded with the group of vengeful tribe members, swearing their innocence, had their own family members killed. Men engaged in bloody bouts with each other and in most cases, a single man would be crowded by other men and beaten senseless or englufed in fire by the use of the arts until death.

Sides were taken, lines were drawn, and the tribe which once ruled itself under the statutes of their tradition was now broken.